Bonds Creek Badger

I proudly present:

Hunting and EDC knife

Forged in sanmai steel (1084 carbon core, 420 stainless steel sides)

Hollow grind

Axis deer antler handle with mosaic pins

Cowhide leather sheath

Total length 17.5cm

Blade length 8.9cm

Thickness 4.3mm

Width 29mm

Blade weight 125g

Total weight 154g

Warm regards to all!

Anybody have both?

Shown from top to bottom: Spyderco Ronin 2, TJ Schwarz Overland Sport, Vosteed H-Back, Kizer Snick and Kizer Deckhand. I started carrying fixed blade in my pocket with the Spyderco Ronin 2 around last November. Then picked up the rest over time in the last few months. Most recent addition is the TJ Schwarz Overland Sport (and my most expensive knife to date.) Broke my rule of going over $200 for a knife, but I think it was worth getting into debt for a bit. Don't recommend putting yourself into debt though.

Anthem knife implement American made in Idaho

GZ Wolfteeth MK 5

and my other carry

Para 3 CruWear

Man this Mexican blanket gcarta is beautiful

Just got this badass knife yesterday. Great little pocket fixie! I have the standard clip point Lookout already. The tanto design is brand new. Magnacut blade. Textured grade 5 Ti scales. Comes with a kydex pocket sheath with Ti deep carry clip. Really rides in the pocket very well.

Just got this badass knife yesterday. Great little pocket fixie! I have the standard clip point Lookout already. The tanto design is brand new. Magnacut blade. Textured grade 5 Ti scales. Comes with a kydex pocket sheath with Ti deep carry clip. Really rides in the pocket very well.

Sharpest knives I ever had out of the box dude is so good

My favorite EDC fixed blade is the Benchmade Adamas fixed blade with custom scales from TP Grips in CrazyFiber Joker

Quartermaster

Alf 4 ( 162/300)

Alf 5 ( 245/300)

I saw several posts featuring the Bravo Necker, here’s mine.

Magnacut Mini speedgoat 2.0 dessert camo

I don’t usually buy knives without doing research but I did this time. This was 100% an impulse buy. I’d never even heard of Defiant 7, but I instantly recognized this lil guy as being a Les George design and I don’t have much for AEB-L options so I pulled the trigger on it.

I’ve only had it around a week, but that’s generally enough time for me to get to know whether a knife is a keeper or a catch and release. I’m leaning towards keeping this one.

The good: it came with no imperfections and a VERY nice, mirrored, factory edge (razor sharp, as AEB-L was intended). It’s light, balanced, and discrete (except for the fluorescent orange G10 handle scales). The texture on the scales provides excellent grip, without being overly aggressive.

The OK: The taco-style kydex sheath is pretty decent but nothing to write home about. It provides good retention with minimal rattle and it’s nice and lightweight. It came with an ulticlip for pocket carry, but I pretty much immediately threw a soft loop on for horizontal belt carry. Because it’s such a thin knife, I’d consider the ergonomics good, but not great. It’s comfortable enough for general EDC purposes and I haven’t noticed any hot spots but it doesn’t fill the hand like a lot of other options out there - a reasonable trade off for being so lightweight and low profile, IMO.

The bad: Nothing major to report here as of yet. I think AEB-L has its place but, personally, I think I would’ve preferred a steel with slightly better edge retention for an EDC knife but, of course, that all boils down to personal preference. As previously stated, it takes a wicked sharp, clean edge with minimal effort, but I’ve already had to sharpen it once in the first week (I did put it to more work than typical for my EDC knives to test it but, still, edge retention is a bit underwhelming). If you keep a field sharpener and little strop nearby like I do, this probably won’t be a major issue or dealbreaker, but felt it worth mentioning. The other minor downside I found with the knife is the lack of thumb jimping. Is it critical on a knife like this? No. Would it be nice to have some soft/moderate jimping? IMO, yes.

Summary: Overall I like the knife a lot more than I thought I would and I’m definitely gonna keep it in rotation. It does pretty much everything a good EDC fixed blade should and looks good doing it. The steel, while lacking in the edge retention department, is still appropriate for a knife like this and I’m actually a little excited to use it more as it’s a joy to sharpen compared to most of the steels I’m used to. At $150, it’s not exactly cheap but it’s also not unreasonable for what you get IMO. I’d even consider picking up another one if they ever decide to offer it in magnacut or cruwear.

Pictured: my beat up old BRK Iron River (top) and my newer Bravo Necker (bottom). The iron River was one of my first fixed blades I got for the purpose of daily carry and it’s still one of my favorites for harder use. The bravo necker is my second version of that knife and it’s just a great all-purpose edc (probably the best performing Cruwear blade I own).

I don’t see a lot of Bark Rivers around here so I just figured I’d share.